Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: photographer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004

Topics

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I don't live in the past.

Joe Montana

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You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

John Boorman

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In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Jeremy Luke

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The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood's political altar, the Democratic Party.

Andrew Breitbart

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It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

Megan Smith

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The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Robert Rauschenberg

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And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Robert Burton

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I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

Rose Leslie

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When I go home, I go to my house in the countryside. I don't hang out in Dublin. I go home to be with my family and have a rest and so on. I don't know anything about the Irish music scene, and I've never felt part of it.

Roisin Murphy

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In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things.

Jojo Moyes

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I enjoy my job, and I will help my state all I can.

Dick Durbin

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